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Atlanta (CNN)The winter storm that socked the Southeast has moved up the East Coast. The National Weather Service predicts the storm could drop a foot of snow in Boston, 2 feet on the Massachusetts coast, 7 inches in New York and 5 inches in Philadelphia by Sunday morning.

The Cape Cod area of Massachusetts looked like it would receive the heaviest blow. The weather service issued a blizzard warning for that area until 3 a.m. ET Sunday, saying "near-whiteout" conditions were possible. Winds could hit 45 mph, the weather service said.

The town of Barnstable, on the Cape, said 1-3 inches of snow could fall per hour and urged residents not to park on the main street because of snow plows.

Going back to work on Monday could be treacherous. Temperatures won't rise above freezing until Tuesday, the weather service said.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh urged the city's citizens to look out for each other and help keep the streets cleared.

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"If we can all work together to remove the snow rather than push it around, we'll be in good shape for Monday morning," he told CNN affiliate WBZ.

A truck plows sleet and snow from an on-ramp along Interstate 40 near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Saturday, January 7. A messy mix of snow, sleet, ice and rain blanketed much of the Southeast as a winter storm swept through the region.

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Shelves sit mostly empty at a supermarket in Atlanta on Friday, January 6. Shoppers emptied shelves of bread and milk, road workers began working 12-hour shifts and states of emergency were declared in Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas ahead of the winter storm.

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A woman walks her dog near ice-covered trees in Atlanta's Piedmont Park after a winter storm passed through on January 7.

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This image provided by the Connecticut State Police shows the scene of a pileup involving as many as 20 vehicles on Interstate 91 in Middletown, Connecticut on Saturday, January 7. No serious injuries were reported.

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A car travels down icy roads early Saturday, January 7, in Hoover, Alabama. Gov. Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency, putting 300 Alabama National Guard soldiers on standby.

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Workers clear the sidewalks of an office park on January 7 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Mark Blackwell with Bradley Wrecker Service pulls a truck from a ditch near Charlotte Douglas International Airport early on January 7 after the storm dumped several inches of snow across parts of North Carolina.

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Barry Boykin throws snow on his neighbors Larniece Clemmons, Taylor Porter, Shondell Porter and Jaynea Smith, as they play Saturday, January 7 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Vanessa Kirschner gives her friend, Victoria Koniuk, a push on a swing Saturday, January 7, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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A tree fell on this Atlanta house early Saturday, January 7, trapping a child, who was rescued through a window. No one was injured. The storm knocked out power to more than 10,000 customers across metro Atlanta by early Saturday, Georgia Power said.

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A person crosses the pedestrian bridge in the Public Garden during a winter storm in Boston on January 7.

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Sledders enjoy the snow at Randolph College January 7 in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Children play in New York City's Central Park during a winter storm on January 7.

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People walk on the boardwalk on January 7 in Ocean City, Maryland. The storm dumped more than eight inches of snow on Maryland's lower Eastern Shore.

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Alexia Marramarco a French foreign exchange student on her way back to Georgia State University in Atlanta, was one of them.

First, her flight Friday from Paris to Fort Lauderdale was diverted to Miami because of the shooting. Then, after being bused to Fort Lauderdale, Marramarco learned her connecting flight to Atlanta was canceled because of weather.

"I haven't slept," she said Saturday.

Asked if she thought she'd get back to campus by Saturday night, she said, "Je ne sais pas." ("I don't know.")

The Fort Lauderdale airport closed one of its four terminals after the shooting but reopened it for flights on Saturday afternoon.

FlightAware, an airline tracking website, listed more than 2,100 cancellations within, into or out of the United States by 6 p.m. ET Saturday. Airports in Boston and Philadelphia urged travelers to check with their carriers about their flight status.

Drivers also ran into problems.

A pileup involving as many as 20 vehicles shut down a section of Interstate 91 near Middletown, Connecticut, on Saturday afternoon, WBZ reported. No serious injuries were reported.

In Virginia, one highway fatality occurred Saturday afternoon when an SUV ran off a road in Greene County, the Virginia State Police said. State police responded to 527 traffic crashes on Saturday.

North Carolina State Highway Patrol troopers have responded to nearly 1,500 calls for service and more than 700 vehicle collisions since midnight.

North Carolina

North Carolina took a heavy punch Friday night, with CNN affiliate WRAL reporting that Raleigh saw about 2 inches of snow but surrounding areas, including Orange and Durham counties, got 6 inches or more.

The weather was so bad in the Triangle area that the Saturday night basketball game between the University of North Carolina and NC State University was postponed until 1 p.m. Sunday.

Two hikers lost for more than a day in a remote section of the Shining Rock Wilderness area of western North Carolina were located late Saturday and airlifted to a hospital, The Asheville Citizen-Times reported.

The two men went for a day hike Thursday and called authorities the next morning to report they were lost and off the trail, WLOS reported. Besides teams on foot, helicopters with heat-sensitive cameras searched the area, Cooper said at a news conference Saturday.

Georgia

The storm that Atlantans were warned about Friday, sending them flocking to the grocery store, didn't pan out for the most part.

Three to 5 inches of snow were predicted, but only a dusting of snow fell on the city, though icy conditions persisted through Saturday and conditions stayed below freezing. Wind chill was also a problem.

The storm had knocked out power to more than 10,000 customers across metro Atlanta by early Saturday, Georgia Power said.

CNN affiliate WSB reported that by 3 p.m. Saturday, more than 3,500 Georgia Power customers statewide were without power, as were 1,500 Georgia EMC customers.

There was a tornado watch for western Florida, around Tampa. Event organizers in Orlando delayed and then canceled the race because of strong winds and lightning in the area.

West Coast

Meanwhile, the West Coast is coming in for some unpleasant weather, too.

A series of storms are pounding northern California, with 15-20 inches of rain forecast over the next seven days, according to CNN meteorologist Haley Brink. Flooding is likely in the coming days, Brink said.

Heavy rain is expected to hit the Los Angeles area by Saturday afternoon. The rain is expected also in the Las Vegas region.

Overall, 77 million people are under a winter weather advisory or warning across the southeastern United States and in the northwest, including the Sierras in northern California.